Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-31

growth of tree is not secured in an hour;
orange groves are not planted and the
crops marketed in one year or two.
The pioneers in citrus fruit culture en-
gagged but limitedly at the north, in the
outset. The cultivation of deciduous
fruits yielding all the way from $50 to
$4,000 an acre, 50 engrossed their atten-
tion, that they had little time to devote to
less profitable production.
Probably not even so much would have
been done here in citrus fruit-growing as
has been accomplished but for the assaults
unwisely made upon this section, attributing
to il an arctic character. Now, however,
that it is proven the fruits may be profit
ably and generally grown here, and with
as great success as at the south, or even
greater, the industry is largely engaged in,
and will, after the due time demanded by
nature, become one of the important COM
mercial enterprises of No thern California,
the capacity of which for such production
is by the testimony of soil and climate
equal to that of the south, and in several
respects superior.
The Express says:
There are some few sheltered spots in the
foOthiil counties, where such fruit can be
grown, but the planting of an orchard would
be attended with much risk and is something
that the man of moderate means will not care
to undertake as long as there is land with water
al RI oh,
planted in oranges. viii produce right along,
year after year, without fail from sl5O to 81 900
prof. per acre.
The nonchalence of our contemporary
in making these statements excites admi-
ration. The fact is that all the fruit
shown at the Oroville exhibition was
grown upon trees planted for ornament
only. The fact is, as we have stated, that
Placer county has been shipping oranges
| for two years. The fact is that as good
land and better than that valued at the
south at 5000 and $500 per acre, and as
capable of producing citrus fruits and
| topped by IS zen and favorable a climate,
can be had in the north for from S15 to
800 per acre, and that in the foothills
there is at hand 1000 inches of water,
formerly used for mining, for irrigation
where desirable, for every single inch
available at the south 1t is fact that the
orange is successfully grown, not in few
favored and sheltered spots in Northern
and Central California, as our contempt
rary asserts, but throughout the valley and
foothill region.
When the Express asserts, as it does, that
there are only few sheltered localities in
Placer county where the orange will grow
that from these places comes the Placer
exhibit, and that Butte county is unlike
Placer in this respect, it excites commits
seration for its Ignorance, or pity for its
want of conscience
In conclusion, since the Express desires
testimony concerning the capacity of the
north to produce citrus fruits, it may be
ready to receive that of Governor Water
man, himself Southern Californian, and
one who has had broad experience in the
cultivation Of citrus fruits. At the Orc
vile Citrus Fair the Governor said:
He had visited that section last winter, and
was satisfied that 1t possessed as good soil for
orange culture as could be found in the State.
The completion of the new railroad to the north
opens new and unlimited market for citrus
fruits throughout the Northern and Northwest
ern States and Territories. He advised every
man and woman to engage in orange growing,
| as 1t would soon become very profitable in
dustry, and an over-supply could not be grown.
And the Governor concluded by stating
his belief that Butte county would rival
any part of the State in producing citrus
fruits" When the Governor examines
the claims of Placer, Yuba, Yolo, Sacra-
mento and other counties, we are confident
his verdict will be one of similar common
dation